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TradeRev Inside Sales Representative

Educate and coach customers on best practices for using TradeRev’s products and services Develop and maintain competitive knowledge and expertise in areas of products, industry trends, and other developments. Understand and react to the competitive landscape regarding all company policies, procedures, and systems with a customer impact.
Support field management with new market rollouts, lead reporting, and inbound/outbound calls.
Maintain a good flow of communication with the department employees and within the Corporation.
Provide outstanding customer service and responsiveness that inspires customer confidence and loyalty.
Work to proactively identify areas where product improvements can be made to provide enhanced ease-of-use and functionality.
Thoroughly document all research and customer interactions in SalesForce (CRM) to ensure product and service reliability.
Assure customer acceptance of and quality of resolution. Identify and escalate issues that require advanced product knowledge or technical expertise.

Data Scientist

Design SQL, R & Python scripts to directly query and analyze internal and external data sources to package together clear, actionable findings.
Work in an Agile environment with team members, delivering solutions quickly and continuously exploring ways to improve our results.
Actively seek out opportunities for innovation.
Work closely with colleagues in Product, Operations, and Sales to structure problems and understand the impact across various departments within the company.
Own the development of predictive modeling and machine learning solutions that continually improve with the collection of real-time dealer and salesperson results from product portfolio.
Coordinate KPI goals and delivery dates with senior leadership, ensuring we are delivering quality solutions timely.

Engineering Manager

• Effectively manage a team of approximately 10 software engineers in all aspects of software development and career growth.
• Strong sense of ownership of team’s technical product deliverables.
• Perform HR-related, performance management and interpersonal communication duties.
• Collaborate with product management team and senior technical staff to deliver products and features.
• Work closely with our technical operations groups to identify areas of improvement for the site. Own coordinating issue resolution for production code related issues.
• Coach, guide, and mentor developers through direct conversation and engagement with their teams to raise the bar for excellence in our products.
Celebrate team successes and address areas of concern in a timely and efficient manner.
• Review product and technical roadmaps to understand staffing and technical needs for the development team.

Senior Frontend Developer

As a Senior Web Software Engineer you’ve had experiences delivering real-time, data-driven web applications and supporting them in production. You can explain your debugging process and how you tackle technical debt. You are comfortable learning and evaluating new languages and libraries.
We expect senior engineers to drive a culture of quality, mentor their piers at any level, accept feedback and continue to grow their own skillset, and drive the design and implementation of complex software systems through careful planning and scoping practice.
You are able to demonstrate discipline in promoting and adhering to style guides and developing best practices. You are deeply committed to refactoring and testing your code while keeping other developers in mind. You enjoy conducting peer reviews in the spirit of constructive collaboration. You also have hobbies and interests outside of work!
Your main responsibilities will be the implementation and maintenance of data-rich UI applications across desktop and mobile devices. You will communicate often with middleware (Java) developers, data engineers, QA, and product owners to set and manage expectations. Consistency is key.

VP of Data Science

As the Vice President of Data Science, you are responsible for leveraging large internal and external data to provide advanced analytic data modeling systems. You will provide both strategic and tactical leadership and direction for a team of data scientists and data analysts as well as assess the organization's on-going talent acquisition, analytic methods, tool selection and development strategy. Your work will revolve around understanding complex business models, large and complex data manipulation, predictive model building, model validation, model deployment and ensuring all model documentation provides full model transparency. Responsible for building and refining predictive and descriptive statistical models to improve insights, enhance data-driven business strategies, and drive improved profitability. You will develop next-generation analytic approaches where current generation approaches are not adequate. You will oversee all data science activities ensuring alignment with departmental and business-wide vision and strategies.

Data Analyst Intern

Analyze disparate sets of data and data query results.
Present findings to Senior Leadership.
Work closely with Product and Operations teams and support their analysis and data needs.
Be a data evangelist, working across the company to understand how our data outputs affect different groups and identify areas where our team can provide additional value.
Work closely with the Data Science team to deliver actionable insights to the organization.

Principal Data Engineer

As a Principal Data Engineer, you’ll be responsible for the architecture of a data platform supporting multiple lines of business through internal and external delivery teams. A Principal Engineer understands frameworks and technologies are part of a toolset in order to determine what the best solutions are for any given task. You will enable and work with our other developers to define and lead the technologies in the fields of data ingestion and mapping supporting data science, product delivery, master data management, and Data As A Service stakeholders. Principal Data Engineers are empowered to evaluate our current system and potential new technologies —supporting the long-term stability, scalability, and performant cloud data delivery platform.

Data Engineer

DRIVIN is looking to expand our data team as we continue to grow our data platform. The candidate should have a strong background with Python and SQL. As a member of the data team, you will architect, plan, build, test, and deliver data solutions utilizing our AWS enterprise data platform.
DRIVIN has a polyglot data model using many cutting-edge data platforms including AWS Redshift for Data Warehouse, Elastic Search for location-based searching, and Postgres for transactional data and product delivery. Our delivery framework is comprised of Python/Docker on ECS, Spark on EMR, and Jenkins for CI/CD.

Sr. Data Scientist

THE RESPONSIBILITIES:
Own the development of predictive modeling and machine learning solutions that continually improve with the collection of real-time dealer and salesperson results from product portfolio
Coordinate KPI goals and delivery dates with senior leadership, ensuring our results are measurable and delivered on time
Work in an Agile environment with team members, delivering solutions quickly and continuously exploring ways to improve

HR Manager

As a liaison between the business and HR for Data As A Service (DaaS), the HR Manager will be tasked with providing leadership, development and overall management of all HR activities while driving the Company’s culture through the delivery of various HR programs and services. The HR Manager will also assess the needs of the organization and facility the development and delivery of professional development and continuous learning for all employees.

Technical Product Manager

As Product Manager in the Drivin Product Team, you will play a key role in identifying potential products, determining requirements and specifications, developing and supporting products with technical teams and bringing products to market. You will work closely with our data science and engineering teams, operations, customer support, and other stakeholders in the business, both internal and external. You will be results-oriented and therefore obsessed with the customer, always looking to deliver business value. You will be technically savvy and hands-on, willing and able to master technical capabilities as needed to deliver. As Product Manager, you will regularly communicate internally and externally, both written and verbally, and be expected to present to multiple audiences on a variety of topics. Importantly, you must be passionate about technology and become a champion of automation and new capabilities within our industry.

Senior Web Engineer

As a web engineer, you’ve had experiences delivering real-time, data-driven web applications and supporting them in production. You can explain your debugging process and how you tackle technical debt. You are comfortable learning and evaluating new languages and libraries.

Jr. Data Scientist

At our core, we are an analytics company. The insights we gain from our analyses guide our strategic path forward as we grow revenue, enter new markets, and strengthen our customer relationships. The Analytics team proactively leads and collaborates to identify the most valuable problems to solve, constructs a Roadmap to delivery, and executes our plan. The team is looking for a Data Analyst with adept technical skills, high analytical prowess and exceptional delivery of output. The Data Analyst role will champion current and future data solutions, all while delivering and automating the best insights possible to both internal stakeholders and customers alike.

Marketing Manager

Reporting to the Vice President of Marketing, the Marketing Manager will work independently to assist in the development and execution of national marketing initiatives that support our Data as a Service offerings including Autoniq, DRIVIN and instaVIN to retain existing business, gain new business, increase efficiencies and maximize marketing investment.
The Marketing Manager works effectively with team members, manages multiple projects/timelines, is a strong writer with executive presence and proficiency in a wide variety of marketing strategies and tactics. Marketing automation experience is required, with a very strong preference for candidates with Salesforce Marketing Cloud certification.

Automotive Field Rep - Chicago, IL

Do you know your cars? Have a keen eye for attention to detail?
AutoVIN, The Automated Vehicle Information Network, provides professional field information and technology services that go beyond the boundaries of the competition. AutoVIN is looking for qualified Field Representatives to process data accurately and deliver actionable results in a timely manner. Primary duties include performing vehicle inspections and conducting floor plan

Backend Java Engineer

The candidate should have a strong background in Java Web Service development and be comfortable using the Spring Framework. As an engineer on the development team the main responsibilities are design, implementation, and maintenance of RESTful web services in both Composite service and Microservice forms. These web services will be integrating with PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch to help aggregate data for the composite services. The candidate should have good communication skills and be able to work closely with Product Owners to discuss feasibility of technical considerations as well as provide accurate estimates for project completion.

Web Engineer

Summary:
Are you looking to join a positive, diverse team to build beautiful, dynamic applications that tackle complex problems for real people? DRIVIN is looking to expand our development team as we continue to innovate in the used car industry.
As a web engineer, you’ve had experiences delivering real-time, data-driven web applications and supporting them in production. You can explain your debugging process and how you tackle technical debt.

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